US Plant Patent PP4302
Pennsylvania
African violet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 18, 1996. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4302
- Filed
- November 18, 1976
- Granted
- September 19, 1978
- Expires
- November 18, 1996
- Assignee
- GESELLSCHAFTSVERTRAG UBER DIE
- Inventor
- HOLTKAMP REINHOLD
Abstract
An African violet plant having relatively large star-shaped flowers having a deep red flower color; shiny foliage; fast and vigorous growth; very strong and upright stems, and long blooming period.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of African violet known by the cultivar name Pennsylvania and particularly characterized as to novelty by the combined characteristics of relatively large star-shaped flowers having a red-purple flower color; shiny foliage; fast and vigorous growth; very strong and upright stems; long blooming period and non-dropping flowers.
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